Famous people you've communicated with via email, Messenger, etc

In this thread I related how I emailed and got a response from Richard “Rik” Cook III.

He is the object of John Lennon’s scorn in the song “Bungalow Bill”. Pretty cool I thought.

Cook gave up his gun for a camera and became a well respected photographer in Hawaii. I’m not sure if he is still with us, as googling didn’t come up with anything recent.